Coat



w. c. KNOERNSCHILD 71,763,892

June 17, 1930.

Y COAT 7 Filed March 15, 1928 IN l/E/V TOR Fatented June 17, 1930 UNITED STATES PATET rFicE WILLIAM G. KN OERNSCHILD, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNORTO MILWAUKEE TANNING & CLOTHING COMPANY, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, A CORPORATION O WISCONSIN COAT Application filed March 15', 1928.

The invention relates to coats, and has for an object the provision of a coat for outer wear including a yielding body-encircling band secured to the interior portion of the 5 coat and adapted to closely fit about the trunk of a. wearer for excluding the weather from the interior of the coat.

Another object of the invention is to so arrange the body-encircling band within the coat that the weather-excluding fit may be obtained while permitting sufficient looseness of the coat to insure comfortable fitting, and to provide means for detachably connecting the ends of the band.

The invention further consists in the several features hereinafter set forth and more particularly defined by the annexed claims.

In the accompanying drawing, the numeral 1O designates a coat for outer wear having a lining 11. The coat may be made of any suitable material, such as leather, and is here shown to be in the form of a jacket which is buttoned at the front as usual.

A yielding band 12, which may be formed of an elastic or knitted fabric, has its upper edge portions attached to the lining 11 of the coat as by means of a seam 13. The lower edge of the band is spaced upwardly from the lower edge of the coat so that the band will be concealed within the coat, and the band is preferably so located within the coat that it will encircle the hip portions of the wearer. The end portions of the band 11 are sewn transversely to the front portions of the lining so as to present short overlapping flaps 14, one of which is provided with buttonholes and the other with co-operating buttons 15 by means of which the ends of the band are detachably connected together atthe front portion of the coat.

When the end flaps of the band 12 are connected together, the resilient character of the band causes the lower edge portions ofthe band to closely fit about the hip portions of the wearer, thereby effecting a weatherexcluding seal which will prevent wind from blowing upwardly into the interior of the coat. The attachment of the band to the lining of the coat, rather than to the outer Serial No. 261,902.

coat material, permits the outer material to loosely surround the body of the wearer' and thereby insures comfortable fitting of the coat.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination of a coat having a lining, a wind-excluding band disposed within said coat for concealment thereby and having edge portions secured along substantially their entire length to said lining only and resilient portions engageable about the lower trunk portions of a wearer, and means for detachably connecting the end portions of said band at the forward portions of said coat.

2. The combination of a coat having outer material and a lining within the coat free from said outer material about substantially all of its trunk-encircling portions, a windexcluding band disposed within said coat and having edge portions secured to the free portions of said lining and having other edge portions above the lower edge of the coat adapted to fit snugly about the lower trunk portions of a wearer, and means for detachably connecting the end portions of said band at the forward portions of the coat, the at tachment of said band to said lining permitting the outer material of the coat to hang WILLIAM G. KNOERNSGHILD. 

